Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 24, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free press local May 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Jim Carr email a3 a game you must not lose High Speed snowbirds Fly up close and personal its kind of like a big video 5 Mike Ayling staff reporter some video imagine flying through the air at about 700 Kilometres an surrounded on All sides by planes sometimes a metre then imagine at the same time pulling forces times the pull of your ears sucked Down around your turbulence tossing your plane around like its made of and then imagine youre doing All that and flying upside youre just beginning to get an appreciation of Mike Aylings Little video Ayling and the rest of the Snow Birds Are in town this weekend per forming at the Winnipeg International air show today and the world famous Preci Sion flying troupe took some Mem Bers of the local Media up with them yesterday to offer a glimpse of what they Virden resident Bob Andrew also got the thrill of his life when he got to go up with his son one of two Manitoban on the 11pilot Andrew said hed flown with his son but never As a Snow it should be All Andrew said As he prepared to buckle in next to and it its been described As Ballet in the air and what the snowbirds do Best arguably better than anyone in the world is Fly formations so tight that you can actually make out individual rivets in the plane next to yesterdays trip took the Snow Birds Over the Forks and then Portage and where they had been scheduled to do a flyover at noon As part of the cites All Clear festivities to celebrate the end of the flood that flyover had to be postponed until mid afternoon because the team was running Low on fuel when Ken free press the snowbirds manoeuvre in formations so tight you can see the rivets on the plane next to it flew in from Moose after doing a Bon rattling turn directly Over Winnipeg most famous the team took their act West to Portage la offering motorists on the trans Canada Highway a dazzling show As they put their planes and accompanying Media to the at one a Loop had Ayling grunting against forces As he fought to keep the nose of his plane pressed up within two metres of the rear of the plane in front of Back on the he explained manoeuvres like that require train concentration and a whole lot of Trust in the Guy next to the Way i look at it is the Guy in front of me Doest want to die any More than i he you just have to Trust in theres always the out two handles on the floor that activate the ejection ground Crew member Troy Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press reporter Wiecek climbs into Jet for a spin with the Bartlett says those handles make him More at ease flying with the snowbirds than on air at least with the snowbirds youve got an option to some video All nurses Union workers on strike labour dispute turned into a Public quarrel yesterday when strike effectively shut Down Normal business at the Manitoba nurses five executives with the including president Vera quietly moved out of the cites Union Centre and set up temporary offices elsewhere with no telephones unionized Manitoba Telephone system workers refused to Cross the picket line the executive relied on cell phones for communications the move was designed to spare the Union embarrassment from picket lines at the Centre because they would have stopped other Union workers from getting to their but the Public nature of the dispute put an unflattering spotlight on the outside the unions new the 10 picketing workers paced the pave ment and said they Are bracing for a Long negotiations Between the executive of the nurses Union and the United food and commercial workers Union which represents the 10 workers in local 832 broke off no talks Are the workers collective agreement expired 18 months rhetoric was heated with Chernecki saying that eight of the 10 workers earn a year and enjoy benefits from free Gas and parking to generous vacation and overtime pack on the opposing a few countered that Perks for one senior staff member for the nurses Union not Chernecki included an annual workers complained they Are almost always on even during the striking workers Are labour relations officers who handle arbitration and grievances for nurses across the Bernard president of said the Union has rejected the nurses offer of a signing Bonus and a two per cent wage increase next Christophe said a few is asking for a two year agreement with a on and on half per cent wage increase this year and a two per cent raise next in the last three the workers have had two wage freezes and one Rollback of per he first now Guys with guns at restaurant by Doug Nairne police reporter Susy Yuen renovated her restau rant and changed the but the same old bad Luck seems to be on the in Yuen was the owner of the Ying King restaurant on Marion Street when a semitrailer truck drove right through the front window in the mid dle of the almost demolish ing the on she had the grand opening of the new and improved Andrews restaurant and a Man showed up with a loaded Shotgun and threatened to kill her Ive Only been doing this for a Short time and look at All that happened to Yuen said first now Guys with Yuen said a Man and a woman came into the restaurant around 9 and got into an argument with some of the other the pair appeared to be and were shown the door by the people they had been quarrelling witnesses say the pair threat ened to return and kill the people who had confronted the Man was very Yuen he came Back about an hour later in the cab with a gun in a shop Ping As soon As the Man and his female accomplice entered the two patrons jumped on one throwing him against the Wall and the other grabbing what turned out to be a sawed off the patrons held the Man for sever Al minutes before throwing him out of the minus his about four minutes later several officers arrested a Man and Brian Louis of 3212 la Verendrye and Nancy Lynn of 1212 la Verendrye Are charged with uttering threats and Possession of a prohibited cacophony signals end of War on flood by Kevin Rollason City halt reporter Joe Bryks Winnipeg free press David Ives left and Dale Kraubner add to the noise level at Portage and main during yesterdays noon hour Hople rang motorists inked churches rang Ells and firefighters sounded their sirens yesterday As Winnipeg Gers celebrated the end of the danger period of flooding in the the Only no show was Canadas aerobatic the their jets battled a headwind on the Way to Winnipeg and they arrived too Low on fuel to make the expected everyone should be out honking their said Motorist Debbie As she sat in her car at a red Light on main Street near City Hall shortly after mayor Susan Thompson listened to the noise from a Vantage Point on a roof at City bringing closure to one stage of the crisis is a she said after but she noted other stages of the flood crisis continue some win nip Eggers Are still out of their Homes and the threat of sewer though is not it is not something which just it will be with people the rest of their like the 1950 flood was for another generation of Deputy fire chief Ken Sim said fire trucks at All 26 stations were wailing their sirens on parking pads outside the every neighbourhood in the City heard some Sim Pat Phillips Charles said she rang the Bells at holy Trinity Church for so Long she got bruises on her hands from pulling the thick if i had another 250 pounds on it would have been Phillips i was six inches off the floor after i took the first it was great fun i enjoy 1996 Oldsmobile cur a 7543 litre v6 4speed automatic Abs Driver Side tilt cruise air Power Power Power Remote keyless split front Bench stereo cassette and much balance of factory 1996 Lumina Sedan litre v6 4speed automatic Abs dual tilt cruise air Power Power Power trunk cargo stereo and much balance of factory 1996 Cavalier Sedan litre l4 3speed automatic Abs dual tilt Power ail body Side stereo and much balance of factory toll free 18004614321 190s 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